The women have the fashion of exposing the upper part of the buttocks by letting a very stiff cloth fall down behind.

Their teeth are filed to points, they wear no lip-ring, and the hair is parted so as to lie in a net at the back part of the head.

The mode of salutation among the men is to lie down nearly on the back, clapping the hands, and making a rather inelegant half-kissing sound with the lips.
_29th December, 1866._--We remain a day at Malambwe, but get nothing save a little maere,[42] which grates in the teeth and in the stomach.
To prevent the Mazitu starving them they cultivate small round patches placed at wide intervals in the forest, with which the country is covered.

The spot, some ten yards or a little more in diameter, is manured with ashes and planted with this millet and pumpkins, in order that should Mazitu come they may be unable to carry off the pumpkins, or gather the millet, the seed of which is very small.

They have no more valour than the other Africans, but more craft, and are much given to falsehood.